Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell arrives at the federal courthouse in Richmond on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. He and his wife Maureen are charged with soliciting more than $160,000 in loans, gifts and other favors from a wealthy businessman in exchange for promoting his products. At right is McDonnell's attorney Hank Asbill.

Video | Virginians share thoughts on McDonnell trial

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell arrives at the federal courthouse in Richmond on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. He and his wife Maureen are charged with soliciting more than $160,000 in loans, gifts and other favors from a wealthy businessman in exchange for promoting his products. At right is McDonnell's attorney Hank Asbill.

It's nearing the end of the second week of the federal corruption trial of former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell.

The trial has been filled with revelations about the McDonnells' relationship with then-Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams, their marriage and the goings on in the governor's mansion during Bob McDonnell's time in office.

Jurors will have to decide whether the couple conspired to accept $160,000 in gifts and loans from Williams in exchange for using the governor's influence to benefit his company. The McDonnells have maintained they followed the law and accepted those things from Williams because he was a personal friend.

The trial is expected to last several weeks.

On lunch Thursday outside Richmond's federal courthouse, several Virginians shared their thoughts on the trial.

Leon Anderson, who runs the restaurant inside the courthouse basement, said he doesn't buy the argument shopped by defense attorneys that the McDonnells couldn't have conspired together because their marriage was broken.

He said he saw them arrive for their arraignment hand-in-hand.

"They looked like a really happy couple to me," he said. "So I've seen them switch their strategy up."

Diane Campbell, a systems analyst for the state, said she was deeply upset by the charges. She said, as a state employee, she knows never even to accept lunch from a vendor.

"I was just really disappointed," she said. "It's a fiasco."

Some folks are rooting for the former governor, such as Dionne Stubbs, who is from Pennsylvania but is in Richmond for work. The trial has even made the news in her home state, she said.

"I hope he recovers from this," she said of the former governor. "Because he seems like a good fellow. His wife's a little ditsy, but he seems like a good fellow."

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